Just like some people ‘got used to face coverings’ during COVID, most were relieved and got used to no face covering. We may have to shed that comfortable tag and go back, given that nobody wants an explosion of cases once again.

While there is divided opinion about the fourth wave, no expert has definitively ruled out any possibility or any eventuality.

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It is good if we start wearing our masks once again, just to see if we can arrest this rise and start seeing happy dips in numbers once again. If we have not been wearing masks at all, at least begin with a few hours indoors, especially in closed air-conditioned spaces, talking to strangers inside stores and readying ourselves for perhaps longer hours and a mandate, though like most we, too, are hoping this will not happen.

Let us try and see if we can start flattening the hill on the graph through masks, hand washing and distance, in fact try to restrict big gatherings to some extent. Let us act now, we do not want that trickle to get to a flood.